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Pakistan Province Suspects COVID-19 in Spike in Bodies Brought to Hospital

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - Officials in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi have
   reported an unusual rise in the number of bodies being brought to
   hospitals and of patients dying due to "severe medical ailments" within
   a few hours of their arrival, suspecting the COVID-19 pandemic could be
   causing the fatalities.

   The national tally of coronavirus infections as of Wednesday stood at
   around 6,400 and deaths at more than 110, including 41 in Sindh
   province, of which Karachi is the capital.

   Seemi Jamali at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in the
   port city said that in the last two weeks, at least 121 dead people
   were brought to the center and 99 others died within a couple of hours
   of their arrival at the hospital.

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